When TVNZ launched the TVNZ ondemand website it gave New Zealanders a new method of consuming television content through their computers. The site proudly advertises that you can "Download of view your favourite shows online" So it appears that you can stream a large amount of television content through your computer, and the option to "download" shows is fantastic. However, there is one small

This article is intended to provide computer-savvy enthusiasts with the information required to set up and configure a Mediaportal installation which is capable of receiving and displaying the freeview Digital Terrestrial or Satellite service in New Zealand. While this document will not go into depth on all portions of the setup, it will provide links to other resources on the web where

Web hosting company IXwebhosting offer a number of one-click GPL applications that their hosting customers can implement on their websites. I recently attempted to install Gallery2 using this facility. I had previously installed Gallery2 on my Startlogic web hosting account through its standard installation script. Unfortunately my experience installing Gallery2 on IXwebhosting was not perfect

Windows Media Centre computers tend to ship with either an OEM manufacturer's remote control or a Microsoft-branded one. These OEM manufactured machines all come with the associated drivers to support the remote control. There are numerous Open Source home theatre PC projects in existence that have a similar media centre-style interface and playback capabilities to Windows Media Centre and

Last Wednesday Anisha and I went to one of the shows that is part of the NZ International Comedy Festival 2008. We watched the "Big Show" at 8.45pm in the Auckland Town Hall. The tickets cost NZ$42.50 each...

On Friday night Anisha and I had takeaways from Nandos, afterwards I took Anisha to the Airport for her Quantas flight to Wellington. On Saturday I Installed the latest version of Joomla onto nztechie.com. The EasyApplication installer which IXhosting provides...

Orcon+ Network Stability Issue 2008-03-01 - 2008-03-14: There were a small number of customers on the Orcon+ network experiencing intermittent outages in their broadband and/or phone service. A software patch was deployed over the weekend (13/14 April) which has resolved these...

Update: Fixed - Comcast users unable to access websites and e-mail. Update as of 12:10 PM EST : This issue has been resolved. All traffic was moved over to another service provider and things were back to normal by 12:10 PM...